NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1531MHz vs 938MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (10W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +335%

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce 720A

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jul 2014

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

775 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

938 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

2

256

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.752 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.01 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

180.1 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

15.01 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GF117

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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